Thursday Movie Picks: Good Remakes

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It's Thursday, but it's not any old Thursday. Here in the great state of North Carolina, it's the day a big, bad storm is rolling through. This time, we're calling her Florence and she might be puttin' a hurtin' on some folks even as you read this. Hopefully, we all pull through this okay and won't have a care in the world when next Thursday rolls around. It's all reminding me of something that happened a little over 20 years ago. A young lady named Fran blew into town, breaking hearts and tree limbs as she passed. As is the case with so many movies that flood theaters every summer, we're getting a remake we didn't really want. So yeah, this week's topic for Thursday Movie Picks hosted by Wanderer at Wandering Through the Shelves is remakes. But not just any old remakes, we're talking good ones.

Scarface

(1983)

Original: Scarface (1932)

The original, loosely based on Al Capone, was one of the best of Pre-Code gangster flicks of the early 1930s. It's protagonist, Tony Camonte was an ambitious Chicago thug who was more than a little bit on the reckless side with vaguely incestuous feelings towards his sister, and eventually succumbs to the whirlwind he stirred up around him. Fifty years later, Oliver Stone penned a script that moved the action to Miami, made Tony Camonte a Cuban refugee named Tony Montana, and handed it off to Brian De Palma who cast Al Pacino in the lead role and helped him bring it to blaring neon life. 

Heat

(1995)

Original: L.A. Takedown (1989)

Rightfully regarded as one of the finest heist movies ever made, most people don't realize that Michael Mann's Heat is a remake. The original was a TV movie that was really a failed pilot episode of a proposed cop show called L.A. Takedown. Here's the kicker, that show's director was also Michael Mann. In a true case of learning from his mistakes, Mann took the story and ported it to the big screen with a few more dollars at his disposal and Robert De Niro and Al Pacino in the two main roles. As you'll see at the bottom of this post, that made all the difference in the world.


(Here's a quick look behind the curtain. I was planning on doing a Pacino theme-within-the-theme, but sadly, I haven't seen Insomnia and couldn't think of another remake he was in. I know, right? Anyhoo, let's just find some more gangsters.)

The Departed

(2006)

Original: Infernal Affairs (2002)

When Americans remake foreign films, we generally screw those up even more than when we remake our own stuff. Not this time. Martin Scorsese got his hands on a Chinese crime thriller named Infernal Affairs that had only come out a few years prior and was a really good movie in its own right. Scorsese upped the character development and maintained the brutality and whiplash ending to create a film that surpasses the original in just about every aspect. It doesn't hurt that his A-list cast turned in work that is among the best of their careers, to a person. This includes arguably the best 21st century performance of none other than Jack Nicholson.

Okay, let's get back to Heat.

One of the most famous scenes from Heat is the diner scene where the characters played by Al Pacino and Robert De Niro meet for the first time. It's a stunning and pivotal scene extremely well-played by two acting giants finally sharing the screen...

Then there's the same scene in L.A. Takedown...

Sigh.

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